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...Anchorman line, "I want to be on you." He had only seen the movie once and had no idea what it was from. 7. Just because I realize that Asian women are smarter, more attractive, and have about themselves a generally superior level of class does not mean I have a fetish. Just that I'm racist. 8. I eat gummy bears by tearing them limb from limb and eating their heads last. 9. I can't grow hair on my arms. 10. Two of my best friends are under five feet tall and I have an intense fear...
...notion that low interest rates mean easier credit is based on a fool's analysis that banks will make risky loans just because their cost of money has dropped; There is almost certainly no truth in that. Many banks still want to keep as much capital as they can in the event of future losses. The same bankers may have been slow-minded enough to dump money into derivatives, but they are shrewd enough to stay out of lending into a real estate market which may well still be dropping...
...Globe. Investors should want to know why the board did not demand a plan for restructuring the company. The easy answer is that the founding Sulzberger family controls enough of the voting power of the board so that actions by other members could have been ineffective. That does not mean that the board should have given up its fiduciary responsibilities. Members who believed that their obligation to the shareholders had been compromised should have stepped down long ago. If anyone did leave the NYT board over matters of disagreeing with the company's direction, it was poorly reported...
...that Dhaka is not doing enough to stop Bangladeshi jihadist groups in the border areas from crossing into India. But the victory in Bangladesh's Dec. 29 general election of the secular Awami League, whose leader (and new Prime Minister) Sheikh Hasina has pledged to curb Islamic militancy, could mean new urgency on Dhaka's part...
...Irrawaddy, a media organization run primarily by Burmese in exile in Thailand. But the raid appears to have been galvanized by foreign anti-drug agents, and, as the Irrawaddy points out, it's not clear whether the Burmese junta would have raided the ship without international pressure. In the mean time, Southeast Asia's largest narco-state continues to thrive. And some Burmese farmers are able to fill their bellies for now, even as they are feeding the world's drug habit...